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• The Daily Report

  The Big Apple’s Little Gambles

  Diana Lind | Thu, Jul 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: transportation, downtown, transit, brooklyn, diana lind, paris, manhattan, bikes, congestion, bike share 2008, city room blog | 1

  New York is experimenting with a bike share program and a peak-rate parking scheme — will either of these ideas get implemented for real?

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• The Daily Report

  Philadelphia’s Ongoing Self-Perception Problem

  Diana Lind | Mon, Jun 23rd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: environment, philadelphia, building, brooklyn, mayor nutter, pennpraxis, harris steinberg, commerce, design montreal | 9

  Last week Philadelphia’s Mayor Nutter presented a new plan for reviving Philadelphia’s waterfront to packed audience at the Museum of Natural History. I didn’t make it to the event, but have been eagerly awaiting some of the response. As per usual, Philadelphians are pretty down on their city. But now they’re picking on the block where I work (seen at right in earlier days)…

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• NAC News

  Next American City Issue 19 Preview!

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, May 28th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, philadelphia, detroit, building, homeless, katrina, brooklyn, taxpayers, research, next american city, events, schools, issue 19, issue preview, summer issue, next issue | 0

  Our new issue hits shelves on June 1 - just a few days away! Issue 19, “The New School,” features stories on New Oreleans’ Charity Hospital, Co-op schools in Brooklyn, Demolition in Detroit, Homelessness in L.A., Escalators in Philadelphia and much more! Also, interviews with Wendy Walters, Jake Dobkin and David Wilson. Here’s a little preview of what’s to come!

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• Underpaid, Under-trained NYPD Officers Make Deadly Decisions

  Chanel Lee | Tue, Apr 29th, 2008 | City: Brooklyn | Tags: new york city, crime, brooklyn, police, color, queens, nypd, bloomberg, chanel lee, ruling, sean bell | 1

  Last Friday, Queens Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman delivered his highly anticipated verdict in the trial of three NYPD detectives accused of killing Sean Bell. Can Bell’s death and others like it be attributed to the fact that NYPD officers and patrolmen are underpaid and insufficiently trained? Next American City welcomes new guest columnist, Chanel Lee.

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• The Daily Report

  Key Magazine: Unlocking Urban Realities?

  Diana Lind | Mon, Apr 7th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: new york city, suburbs, growth, foreclosure, brooklyn, diana lind, magazine, new york times, real estate, key magazine | 3

  This past weekend saw the latest edition of the New York Times’s Key magazine. Usually a source of real estate porn, the magazine usually looks at the froth in the housing market and winks. With the exception of a piece about a company that tends to magnates’ private wineries, the latest issue was decidedly sober. More details in today’s featured commentary by Next American City editor Diana Lind.
  

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• Headlines

  Corruption in New Orleans, Phone-book free Cambridge, Toll Skepticism, MORE…

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Mar 21st, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: transportation, building, green, katrina, brooklyn, atlantic, corruption, tolls | 1

  Headlines for March 21st 2008.

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• Headlines

  Civil War Democracy, traffic, bikes, crack

  David Anderson | Mon, Feb 11th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, hillary clinton, david anderson, los angeles, brooklyn, crack, bikes, super tuesday, civil war, selma, berkeley, usa today, common sense, us marines | 0

  Next Up for the Democrats: Civil War

  “The untold story in the run-up to Super Tuesday was Hillary Clinton’s elaborate live prime-time special the night before the vote. Presiding from a studio in New York, the candidate took questions from audiences in 21 other cities. She had plugged the event four days earlier in the last gasp of her debate with Barack Obama and paid a small fortune for it: an hour of time on the Hallmark Channel plus satellite TV hookups for the assemblies of…

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• Headlines

  Hospital freebie dump, EPA vs. Arnold, sustainable Abu-Dhabi

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Jan 22nd, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, jeffrey hill, california, brooklyn, epa, futuro house, super bowl, scientology, weak dollar, prescription drugs | 1

  Sale on America: Foreign Investors Buy in Big

  With much talk about the economy shock, our international neighbors are seizing an opportunity to cash in. The New York Times reports: “For much of the world, the United States is now on sale at discount prices. With credit tight, unemployment growing and worries mounting about a potential recession, American business and government leaders are courting foreign money to keep the economy growing. Foreign investors are buying aggressively,…

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• The Daily Report

  If a man is shot in North Brooklyn, does it make a sound five miles away?

  Stephanie Melka | Sat, Oct 27th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: new york city, brooklyn, lawn, stephanie melka, prospect park, if a man is shot, gun violence, shooting | 0

  Whenever I meet someone unfamiliar with New York City, one of the questions I am invariably asked is, “What’s a borough?” To put it simply, a borough is a county. Each borough has a Borough President, though practically it is the mayor of NYC with most executive power. Five boroughs make up the city: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

  As mentioned in my previous post, I currently live in Brooklyn, so that’s where we’ll start. One of the striking things I’ve…

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